How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to
be competitive in a modern economy? And what would accomplishing this mean for world …

In an international context, teaching quality is often assessed via student surveys. Yet, there
is little empirical evidence for the validity of students' perceptions of teaching quality across …

This paper examines the relationship between historical cultural norms and attitudes
towards loneliness, specifically within the context of second-generation immigrants. We …

We study a mentoring program that aims to improve the labor market prospects of
disadvantaged adolescents. Our randomized controlled trial investigates its effectiveness on …

We characterize intergenerational mobility in Germany using census data on educational
attainment and parental income for 526,000 children. Motivated by Germany's tracking …

We present direct evidence on the link between children's patience and educational-track
choices years later. Combining an incentivized patience measure of 493 primary-school …

Asian immigrants' children, even those from lower-backgrounds, tend to acquire higher
levels of education than other ethnoracial groups, including White natives. Asian culture is …

Cross-country differences in the gender gap of higher education attainment are large. In this
paper, we study the role of gender norms for this particular gender gap. To isolate the effect …

This paper synthesizes the economics literature on skills and human capital, with a
particular focus on higher-order capacities like social and decision-making skills. We review …

Since 2012, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), an initiative of the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has been collecting …